Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Magic incantations for FreeBSD machines racked in distant datacenter

Loader.conf

console="comconsole,vidconsole"


you need console on serial for your terminal server. remote hands could really use console on vga for when they plug in the crash cart.

FreeBSD handbook serial serial console howto

rc.conf



fsck_y_enable="YES"


Please fsck after an unclean shutdown, instead of requiring intervention.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Android resources...

Android unleased - has the key instructions for downgrading, rooting and then upgrading android notably:

downgrade the thing

getting root

upgrading to a new still rooted firmware

The whole goal of this exercise being to be able to use your android as a wireless access-point.

android tethering with iptables

more detail:

xda developers


Wiki where this stuff is apparently collecting.

android wiki